According to the National Institute of Health, 85% of the world's population has been afflicted with acne at some time or the other during their lives. While generally it affects adolescents and young adults between the ages of 12 and 24, it has been known to trouble people even in their forties and fifties. It does not pose any grave danger to a person's health but, because of the disfigurement it causes, sufferers grow frantic to find ways of acne removal. We will now suggest ways and means of doing so.
There
are two approaches to the problem. One is through the
process of eating and applying prescription medicines
and the second is through natural home remedies. In
prescription medicines, you will probably be
administered antibiotics, Retin-A or oral contraceptives
(if you are a woman). There are powerful medicines which
helps in acne removal but please remember that they have
serious side effects. They can cause such severe
depression that even suicidal tendencies could enter the
mind of those taking them. It could also affect pregnant
women adversely. How To Get Rid of
Acne?
Antibiotics
are often used to combat bacteria which could be present
on our skin. Bacterium does not cause acne but increases
susceptibility to infection which ultimately leads to
acne. Over time, bacteria become immune to antibiotics
reducing its efficacy. Retin-A, a derivative of Vitamin A, is used extensively to
fight whiteheads and blackheads but takes a very long
time to be fully effective. Oral contraceptives are for women
who suffer from outbursts of acne during menstrual
periods. While it helps, it also leads to irregular
bleeding, weight gain or loss and mood
swings.
There
are some other simple home remedies for acne
removal. The first is to cut a potato in half and
rub the two flat edges on your acne. The potato breaks
down the oil in the pores and, because of its texture,
it exfoliates the skin. The second method involves
steaming your face .The steam blows on your face and
unblocks the pores making it easier to remove smaller
acne such as blackheads. Natural Acne Home
Treatments
Other
natural methods of acne removal include applying
a mask of honey on the face once or perhaps two times in
a week. Honey works because it has antibacterial
properties that are extremely useful as a disinfectant
and for healing the minor outbreaks of acne and is also good for
the sensitive skin. A second simple remedy is to wash
the face two times in a day with a sulphur-based soap
that has been specifically designed for acne. However,
never scrub the face too vigorously as that will only
stimulate your glands and lead to the production of
excess sebum, and this will lead to
acne.
Having
given you these tips on acne removal, we must
again emphasize that the only way to permanently make
your acne go away is through the holistic approach. All
other cures really tackle the immediate symptoms with
the result that acne can once again resurface. Only the
holistic approach, which tackles the root of your acne
problem, can cure you for good. Once the root causes are
diagnosed and treated with the holistic approach, the
acne never comes back again, and so this is the
permanent acne removal technique. Acne can occur from
many causes (such as hormonal changes and an excess of
toxins in the body) and so it becomes important to
investigate as to what exactly is making them form. The
holistic approach treats the entire system and finds out
the real causes and treats them, rather than just treat
the symptoms. This is why holistic remedies are so much
more successful.
